On Tue, 15 Sep 1998 08:24:27 +0200 (MET DST), Cyrille Chepelov
<chepelov@rip.ens-cachan.fr> said:
> On Mon, 14 Sep 1998, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
>> This is a sign that an IO has got stuck in the kernel's block device
>> buffer cache. Given that the problem is in the sync(), it is most
>> likely to be that a write to the password file or lock file itself
>> which is causing the problem.
> But then, why on a write to _this_ file only ? (actually, since my
> original post, I reproduced it while adding quota to the /var/spool/mail
> partition. The machine locked after the first (manual) "quotacheck" (but
> doesn't during reboots)).
Because _this_ file is the one which is occupying the problematic
sectors, I imagine. One thing you could do is to rename the password
file and then copy it back, so that you are now using a different area
of the disk.
--Stephen
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